Pocket cigarette-machine.



674-8'45- Patented May 2|. mm. L. LEE.

POCKET CIGARETTE MACHINE (Application Med Feb. 21, 1901 (No Model.)

'40,. wasumumu n c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS LEE, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN W. VOGEL AND ALBERT CORRODI, OF SAME PLACE.

POCKET .ClGARETTE-MACHINE.

$PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 674,845, dated May 21, 1901.

Application filed February 21, 1901. Serial No. 48,319- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS LEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pocket Cigarette-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pocket cigarettemachines, one object of the same being to provide simple, effective, cheaply-constructed, and easily-operated means for making a cigarette by hand which is tightly rolled and uniform in shape and density throughout.

A further object of the invention is to provide novel means for feeding the tobacco from the box 01' receptacle in which it is contained to the cigarette-paper in tubular form which will prevent the withdrawal of the tobacco from the paper or wrapper back into the receptacle and which will tightly pack the same in said paper or wrapper.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear and the novel. features thereof will be set forth in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view illustrative of my device. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section showing the same in the act of making a cigarette, and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the screw plunger or feeder.

Like reference-n umerals indicate like parts in the different views.

In carrying out my invention I employ a box or receptacle 1 of any suitable or convenient size and shape to be readily introduced into the pocket and having a hinged lid 2 thereon adapted to close the open side of the same and prevent the escape of the contents. Secured to and extending outwardly from one end of the box 1 is a tube 3, which communicates with the interior of the box or receptacle 1 and serves as a mandrel or former for the cigarette paper or wrapper 4. The said tube 3 is of the diameter of the cigarette to be made and has extending into it a plunger or feeder 5, the said plunger also extending back into the box or receptacle 1. Secured to the plunger or feeder 5 and extending out through an opening in the end of the box or receptacle 1 opposite the tube 3 is a rod 6, provided with an eye or loop 7 and having a ring 8 secured thereto by means of said eye or loop. The ring 8 serves as a means for operating the plunger or feeder 5 by introducing one of the fingers of the hand thereinto, and the eye or loop 7 serves as a stop for limiting the movement of the plunger or feeder 5 in one direction. The plunger 5 is preferably formed from a strip of sheet metal spirally bent or twisted at a point intermediate its ends, as shown at 9, and having its opposite ends straight or untwisted, as shown at 10 and 11. The twisted portion 9 of the plunger or feeder 5 is located adjacent to the point of communication between the box or receptacle 1 and the tube 3, and the extremity of the end 10 serves as a means for packing the tobacco in the cigarette paper or wrapper. The extremity of the oppositeeud 11 forms a shoulder or stop, which abuts against the end of the box or receptacle 1 and limits the upward movement of the feeder or plunger 5.

In using my device the box or receptacle 1 is filled with tobacco and the lid or cover 2 thereof closed. The cigarette paper or wrapper is then folded around the tube 3, which constitutes a former, and the meeting edges thereof sealed in the usual manner. One end of the paper tube thus formed is allowed to project beyond the end of the tube 3, and this projecting portion of the paper tube is folded inwardly to close one end thereof. One of the fingers of the hand is then introduced into the ring 8, the device turned to a vertical position, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and a reciprocating movement imparted to the feeder or plunger 5. The spiral or twisted portion 9 of the feeder or plunger 5 will cause a small quantity of tobacco from the box or receptacle 1 to be introduced into the tube 3 and thence into the paper tube 4, encircling said tube 3. Upon each downstroke of the feeder or plunger 5 the extremity of the straight end 10 thereof packs the tobacco in the paper tube or wrapper in an obvious manner. Upon each upstroke of the feeder or plunger 5 a portion of the tobacco in the box or receptacle 1 is brought into contact with the twisted portion 9 of said feeder, and upon the next downstroke of said feeder the same is delivered into the tube 3 and thence into the paper tube or cigarette-Wrapper 4. By forming the feeder 5 with the flat or straight end 10, which is located in the tube 3, I provide means not only for packing the tobacco in the paper tube or wrapper, but for preventing upward movement of the tobacco in the tube 3 back into the box or receptacle 1 upon the upstroke of said feeder. If the spiral portion 9 of the feeder 3 extended down to the extreme lower end thereof, the back-and-forth movement of said feeder would cause a corresponding movement of the tobacco fed thereby. The result would be that af er a portion of the tobacco in the box or receptacle 1 had been delivered into the tube 3 it would upon the upstroke of said feeder be eitherentirely or partially returned to said box or receptacle.

The fiat or straight portion 11 of the plunger or feeder 5 serves as a stop for limiting the upward movement of said feeder and also as a means for preventing any'movement of the tobacco in the box or receptacle 1, through which it passes. The only portion of the feeder or plunger 5 that need be twisted is that adjacent to the point of connection between the tube 3 and the box or receptacle 1.

Having now described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a pocket cigarette-machine, the combination with a receptacle for tobacco and a tube secured thereto and communicating therewith,of a reciprocating spirally-arranged feeder or plunger for forcing the tobacco from said receptacle into said tube, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. .In a pocket cigarette-machine, the combination with a receptacle for tobacco and a tube secured thereto and communicating therewith,of a reciprocating spirally-arranged feeder or plunger for forcing the tobacco from said receptacle into said tube, and stops for limiting the movements of said feeder or plunger in opposite directions.

3. In a pocket cigarette-machine, the com bination with a receptacle and a tube secured thereto and communicating therewith, the said tube constituting a former for the cigarette-paper, of a reciprocating feeder or-plunger movable in said receptacle and in said tube, the said feeder or plungerhaving a spiral or twisted portion adjacent to the point of connection of said tube with said receptacle, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a pocket cigarette-machine, the combination with a receptacle and a tube secured thereto and communicating therewith, the

said tube constituting a former for the cigarette-paper, of a reciprocating feeder or plunger movable in said receptacle and in said tube, the said feeder or plunger havinga spiral or twisted portion adjacent to the point of connection of said tube with said receptacle, and having the end thereof which lies within said tube untwisted, the said end constituting a packer, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a pocket cigarette-machine, the combination with a receptacle and a tube secured thereto and communicating therewith, the said tube constituting a former for the cigarette-paper, of a reciprocating feeder or plunger movable in said receptacle and in said tube, the said feeder or plunger having a spiral or twisted portion adjacent to the point of connection of said tube with said receptacle, and having the ends thereof on opposite sides of said spiral portion untwisted, as and for the purpose set forth.

6, In a pocket cigarette-machine, the com bination with a receptacle, and a tube secured thereto and communicating therewith, the said tube constituting a former for the cigarette-paper, of a reciprocating feeder or plunger movable in said receptacle and in said tube, the said feeder or plunger being formed from a strip of sheet metal, having its opposite ends flat and its intermediate portion adjacent to the point of connection of said tube with said receptacle twisted, as and for the purpose set forth.

7. In a pocket cigarette-machine, the combination with a receptacle and a tube secured thereto and communicating therewith, the said tube constituting a former for the cigarette paper, of a reciprocating feeder or plunger movable in said receptacle and in said tube, the said feeder or plunger being formed from a strip of sheet metal having its opposite ends flat and its intermediate portion, adjacent to the point of connection of said tube with said receptacle, twisted, a rod or wire secured to said feeder or plunger at the end opposite said tube, the said rod or wire projecting through an opening in said receptacle and having an eye formed thereon constituting a stop, and a ring secured to said eye, as and for the purpose set forth. 7

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS LEE. Witnesses:

WM. M. STOCKBRIDGE, GEO. W. REA. 

